With Prospero restored to his dukedom, the match of Ferdinand and Miranda blessed, Ariel freed to the elements, and even the winds and tides of the return voyage settled, Shakespeare leaves Caliban's fate naggingly unclear.

As Dick astutely points out, Woolf's criteria in revising the story seem to have included a desire to remove as far as possible her own naggingly class-ridden perspective, the voice of "the bemused mistress" (133).

Yet the premise of French thinking man's horror The Returned seems naggingly similar to that of In The Flesh, BBC Three's dark drama which screened back in March and told of the aftermath of a zombie plague in which the infected are renamed Partially Deceased Syndrome Sufferers, given behaviour-altering medication and introduced back into the local community.

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